Mourning facts for kids
- Not to be confused with morning
Mourning refers to process of grieving. This almost always happens at funerals whenever a loved one passes away.
Images for kids
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Girl in a mourning dress holding a framed photograph of her father, who presumably died during the American Civil War.
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Japanese funeral arrangement.
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Catherine de' Medici as widow, c. 1560s
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Mary, Queen of Scots, in deuil blanc c. 1559 following the deaths of her father-in-law, mother, and first husband Francis II of France.
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Mourning jewelry
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Queen Victoria with the five surviving children of her daughter, Princess Alice, dressed in mourning clothing for their mother and their sister Princess Marie in early 1879.
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The five daughters of Prince Albert wore black dresses and posed for a portrait with his statue following his death in 1861.
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Poor orphans depicted wearing a makeshift black armband to mourn for their mother (Work by F.M. Brown), 1865
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Thailand national flag flown at half mast at a high school in Bangkok during the state mourning of the King Bhumibol
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Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain lying in state, by Sebastián Muñoz, 1689, displays the full panoply of lying in state
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A woman mourning the death of her husband, Prague, 1772
See also
In Spanish: Luto para niños